Ed Miliband’s campaign office was hardly a hive of activity earlier, despite the fact there are local elections in Doncaster today.

These carpet baggers can never be relied on…

Former Telegraph editor Charles Moore has launched a blistering coded attack on the paper’s editor-in-chief and ‘chief content officer’ Jason “Psycho” Seiken. Writing in this week’s Speccie, Moore uses the metaphor of Horse and Hound magazine, criticising the countryside periodical for replacing its editor with a “content director”, and accuses other publications that have made up similar new digital job titles of “suffering an identity crisis”:

“Horse and Hound, my other magazine outlet, is to lose its excellent editor, Lucy Higginson. She is to be replaced by a ‘content director’ whose background is as a ‘brand director’. A cull of the section editors is expected… It is well known that most magazines (though not, interestingly, The Spectator) are suffering an identity crisis as the world goes digital, but why is getting rid of editors the answer? The editor of a publication is its maker’s guarantee. His or her loyalty is to the title and, above all, to the readers, even if this sometimes seems to conflict with the wider, short-term interests of the owning group. Readers trust the publication, and therefore buy it, because it is edited. If it isn’t, they won’t, so it will collapse. It is a strange thing that the current media culture, though obsessed by the idea of the ‘brand’, does not recognise that editors and titles are by far the strongest known form of branding in publishing. The trick is to find the best way of expressing this digitally, not to abolish it.”

Who could he possibly be talking about?

After Guido slotted BBC News Channel’s Jasmine Lawrence for her anti-UKIP online ranting, forcing the BBC to divert the deputy editor from political duties, others have been frantically deleting tweets. BBC producer/reporter Sally Challoner chose today to delete her anti-English Democrat postings, but Radio 4’s  Rosemary Baker has not been so quick:

https://twitter.com/Rombren/status/469015249908404224

You can run, BBC Bolsheviks, but you cannot hide. 

UPDATE: Baker has protected her account so the Tweet is no longer publicly available. As ever Guido has the screenshot:

Andy Burnham has written to Nigel Farage to complain about a UKIP leaflet suggesting he was a millionaire. Which is true.

Burnham owns at least two properties, and estimates by local estate agents say his house in the nice leafy bit of Warrington would fetch at least £350,000. Then there is his flat in Kennington, which he rents out. Flats round there don’t go for less than £350,000 at a very conservative estimate. 

After nearly two decades on the public teat, Burnham’s pension assets will push him into millionaire territory.  Not only does he have 13 years of absurdly generous MPs’ pension, he also spent four years as a SpAd and five years as a government minister. The public sector pays.

The elder Burnham will have pension of at least £30,000 per annum and this asset, along with the property, easily pushes him over the mark. He may be ashamed of his wealth, but he can’t just ignore it.

Inside the polling station which is Hunslet Sports and Social Club in Leeds is a helpful "Vote Labour" poster. pic.twitter.com/sBAVzcW3JV

— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) May 22, 2014

Thanks @GuidoFawkes we’re following up individual cases as they’re highlighted to us & issued guidance & reminded administrators b4 the poll

— Electoral Commission (@ElectoralCommUK) May 22, 2014

@GuidoFawkes we had been made aware of this, have spoken to the Returning Officer and this has now been taken down

— Electoral Commission (@ElectoralCommUK) May 22, 2014

Quick action…

Rule number one if you are an MP appearing on the telly: don’t drop the F-bomb. That’s what Nick Herbert did on the Daily Politics just now:

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Poor JoCo!